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...Brooks has worked equally well in other areas. Once, asked to contribute an article to Esquire, Brooks cooked up a six-page illustrated catalogue for an institution called Albert Brooks' Famous School for Comedians. The curriculum boasted lessons in such niceties of the profession as "Working with a Drummer" and instructions in "an occasional heartfelt sentiment" to use between jokes ("You're a marvelous human" or "He's a real saint"). He received more than 200 applications to the school...
Divorced. Ringo Starr, 35, former Beatle drummer lately boogalooing it solo; in an uncontested suit by his wife of ten years, Maureen Cox, 28, a Liverpudlian hairdresser who bore him three children; on grounds of Ringo's alleged adultery with Nancy Andrews, 24, an American model whom he met on a blind date in Los Angeles last summer...
Died. Arthur ("Zutty") Singleton, 77, innovative jazz drummer; in Manhattan. Zutty (Creole patois for cute) grew up musically in the hothouse of pre-World War I New Orleans jazz, developing a driving, fiercely rhythmic style on the snare and bass drums and was one of the first jazz drummers to use wire brushes. Until the early '30s, he played regularly with Louis Armstrong and later recorded with Charlie (Bird) Parker and Dizzy Gillespie...
...will be 1776-1976. But the reverse sides will be totally new. The Kennedy half-dollar, which will become available this week, will feature Philadelphia's Independence Hall. Some time next month, the U.S. Mint will start releasing Washington quarters that will carry the image of a colonial drummer boy. In September, the Eisenhower dollar will appear, graced by the Liberty Bell and cratered moon...
Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: Potpourri (Philadelphia International Records; $6.98). Eighteen jazz all-stars make up one of the last of the big bands. Many jazz connoisseurs also consider it the best. In nine years of one-night stands since its founding by Trumpeter Jones and Drummer Lewis, J. & L. has perfected a loose, flexible sound. The title refers to the multiracial, three-generation profile of the personnel - Trombonist Cliff Heather is 70, Trumpeter Jon Faddis is 21 - as well as to the program...